WASHINGTON EXAMINER: If Obama wins, brace for a suicide dive off fiscal cliff.

EMBARRASSED? I doubt it.

JOURNALIST TWIT tweets his bias. Facts? We don't need no stinkin' facts.

HE EXPECTING TO LOSE CLOSE: Obama dispatches election lawyers 'all across the country'. Too bad for him it won't be close.

CAL THOMAS: "Where's the racist detector and who gets to operate it?"

HURRICANE SANDY hadn’t even made landfall when President Obama’s political allies began trying to use the tragedy for political gain.

Unexpectedly.

MICHAEL BARONE: "[I]f you listen to both Romney and Obama on the stump, you will hear concern about the nation's poor from one candidate and virtually nothing from the other."

OUR PERPETUALLY OFFENDED PRESIDENT: I’m offended that people would accuse me of not being forthcoming about Benghazi.

He's offended? I'm not; I'm thoroughly pissed.

GOODBYE, SANDY, we hardly knew ya. It's over; light rain, winds calm, and Sandy has gone her way. It's still dark outside, but as best I can tell with a flashlight, we lost one large tree, which in turn took out two smaller ones. There may be another small tree (or large branch) in the front. It's hard to tell without light, but something seems amiss. Leaves are everywhere -- what would have fallen naturally over days and weeks were taken down forcibly. I am somewhat surprised by what appears to be a lack of debris (small branches, etc.) in the yard, but that may just be because it's still dark.

UPDATE & BUMP (with pictures).

Here's the first post-Sandy picture of the house taken from the front yard. You can compare it to the pre-Sandy picture posted here.
The change is dramatic in that the leaves have been pounded into the ground.

Here are the downed trees. The one on the far left started the fall. It's a big one, roughly 18" in diameter at the base and about 70' tall. It took out the one immediately to its right, which is about 12" diameter at its base. I'd guess it was about 50' tall. The third one, also a 12-incher, is only partially uprooted and still partially supporting the other two. The next one in line is still vertical, but was snapped off about 20 feet up (at the very top of the photo). I suspect it's the major reason the trees didn't fall completely to the ground.

Here's the base of the first downed tree. From ground level to the top of the root system is about 6 feet (above my head). The interesting thing about this picture is that the soil is pretty much dry, meaning that the tree was taken down by wind and not soil erosion.

Last picture, taken from the northeast side of the house. The vertical tree is the one that was snapped in two about 20' above ground level. The tree that is caught is the smaller of the two that came down. The big one that started the whole collapse is in the top right corner of the photo.

I'm still suprised that the tarps that cover the two firewood piles never blew off.

OOPS! Obama Proposes to Add a ‘Secretary of Business’ to Cabinet.

LIBERALS: Pay us for controlling your kids -- but you're responsible if anything we do goes wrong.

AT LEAST THE NEXT FOUR YEARS: Obama to Change Washington by Spending More Time Away.

JOHN RANSOM disses the New York Times: "I suspect that the Times resents the free market where readers get to decide on their own that they’d rather watch Fox News than read the New York Times."

IT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA to mess with a Warthog pilot.